Creator of the World.
Pen iisylvania (Diversity is rejuiriiiL:, in Hie possession of ;i tablet d Uμ , up in .Nippur sonic years a μ-o which has now heel) leanslated by l)r Allio I'oeliel. wlin licfirves thai lie has unveiled the oldesl story so I'ar known id' Hie creation of (lie Avoild. Tlie lriiiversily iablei dated back to (In , reiu'ii oP Tlaiiimurabi, alxnit 7001) li.C. The record reads lita a new version of (Jenosis, with the important dilVeronr-e that (lie creator of the World is described as a(i odd ess and not a (jod. I)] , . Poebcl, wlio is now in clicckin.tr his translation, says tlio tabic depicts a goddess (|uitc clearly, and speaks of two male μ-ods as relatively unimnioijtant. The University authorities ajrrco with Dv Poeliol (hat tlie tablet now deciphered μ-ives probablyj-ho first story of (be world's creation, and also ilic most wonderful accounts of civilisation in 2100 B.C.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 October 1913, Page 4
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150Creator of the World. Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 October 1913, Page 4
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